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Hardware Dealer Put Up to Tell
of Defendant’s Interest in
Pistols, ‘
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(By International News Service.) 1
COURTHOUSE, CONCORD, N. C.,
Nov. 28.—The State today upset the
&lans of the defense of Gaston B.
eans, charged with the murder of
Mrs. Maude A, King. Defense coun
¢gel has fought foreign expert testi
mony, charging it was biased. To
day the State partially qualified M. F.
Ritchic, a local hardware dealer, as
BN eéxpert witness,
« Ritchie told of Means’ coming to
his store on the third day before the
death of Mrs. King. He declared’that
he wanted to buy a 32-caliber auto
matic. Ritchie had no 32-caliber au
tomatics, put had a 25-caliber. Means
stated this gun was too small. He
told of Means' coming in his store
the day Mrs. King died, bringing his
pistols and stating:
“lI want these gung so they will
work perfectly.”
Ritchie expalined the action on the
pistol with which Mrs. King was Kkill
ed. He declared he did not believe it
grobable that the gun could be fired
y falling or by,accident. The wit
ness then told of tests he had made
firing the gun at a blank piece of
stationery and that at a distance of
fifteen inches powder marks and
burns were very evident. s
) James Simpson, an undertaker who
helped to prepare the body of Mrs.
King, testified that there were no
powder marks or burns on the body.
3 Means Interested.
Means displayed keen interest to
day for the first time. He chewed
film viciously. Mrs. Means and Mrs.
ay C. Melvin, sister of Mrs. King,
gat near the defendant.
During the entire proceedings thr
jury leaned forward and hung on
ever— word. ;
The mysterious Clyde B. Ambrose,
United Statcs secret service agent,
ghtered the case today. C. L. An
drews, a hotel clerk, testified that
Ambrose had called his attention to
the fact that Means and Mrs. King
registered at a Salisbury hotel Au
gust 18. The defense insisted on
showing Ambrose had investigated
the case. Up until this time it has
not been shown why a secret service
man was interested. It is under
stood Amhrose had been trailing
Means as a suspected agent of the
“German secret service.
i The first task of the State is to
establish the fact that Mrs. King was
murdered, when she met her death by
gunshot at the Blackwelder Spring
\the night of August 29.
The first witnesses were L. A.
Weddington, undertaker, and Captain
W. S. Bingham, one of the party
which went target shooting with
‘Mrs. King.
Condition of Body.
Weddington's testimony concerned
the condition of Mrs. King's body
when he received it to prepare for
burial. The State, in its examination
of Weddington, laid the basis for its
first circumstantial evidence that Mrs.
King was killed. Weddington testi
fied there were no marks about the
wound from which Mrs. King died.
This was the first step by the State
to prove that under the circumstances
she could not have Kkilled herself.
Weddington was also closely exam
fned as to the orders he was given
by Gaston B. Means as to the pre
paring of Mrs. King’'s body. The
State attempted to show that Means
evidenced haste in the disposal of
Mrs. King's body.
' Captain W 8. Bingham is the sole
member of the fated party who has
byen called to appear for the State.
Bingham offered testimony that he
went with the defendant, Mrs. King
and Afton B. Means to Blackwelder
Springs to shoot at targets. He told
of wandering away from the party
“to shoot a rabbit.” Then, as he
turned to join the party, he met Af
ton Means and in a moment they
heard a shot and Gaston Means
called: “Come here quick, Afton;
Maude has shot herself.”
The State hopes to bring Out cen
demning evidence from Captain
Bingham on cross-examination.
30 State Witnesses. S ik
State has 30 witnesses to of
feg:h:nd it is expected it will take
them several days to present their
ca;}e.. T. Cansto, attorney for the de
zense, was at his bfs_-tl. and his cross
ination was pitiless. 2
x%?rl the first time Mrs. Mary C.
Melvin, sister of Mrs. King, appeared
n court. She was heavily veiled as
he sat beside the defendant with
> ead.
ogx(',d\]l:-hn McFayden told of the
Bringing of the body of Mrs. King to
the Concord Hospital. He testifie
e as not only shot in
that Mrs. King was . s
the head, but her left ;:m}\e wa
fifoken, which he believed wgs
caused by a sudden turning of the
”‘{‘J',;m the defense produced the
ered by the Means family
clothes offered by
e W by Mrs. King on the
ag those worn 3 A =
night of her death, Dr. McFayden
could not identify them. He h:;ld smg
Mrs., King wore a purplis -BTay
‘,“ The dress produced was brown.
gogax.;t::in Bingham, on cross-exam
. g ated that when he found
ination, st:\UJ 1r her hat had been
Mrs. v"»‘"g?{i"’fl:\mnmf e N
emmt-d..' e The hat has not
broad-brimmed. ks Th
. .ed by the defense. ne
bee nproduced D is hat was of
State will contend olt wolld bawve
such a .»h;ltd'."‘r‘,(;’.lr“‘.‘,“ shooting and
Bvented an acciGenia o - no bullet
that it is withheld becaus ‘
hole was in it. ¢ heing aroused
Bingham :u’s:-.; t.()m n: "il?;.,t ¢ ke
i Dbed late on SRS FUE e Means
tragedy and summoned to the 2
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Here’s Caruso’s singing version of The ‘‘Star-Spangled Banner,’’ in his own handwriting
NEW YORK, Nov. 28.—1 n ordet to ac
quire a clear, correct pronounciation of
the English words of ‘“The Star Span
gled Banner,”” Enrico Caruso, unknown
to a great number of his close friends,
and even ihe Metropolitan directors,
seized upon a novel method.
The Italian tenor went quietly to work
and had a friend, whose identity is not
revealed, slowly repeat the words.
Seated at his writing table in his suite
in the Knickerbocker Hotel, Caruso
wrote down a phonetic representation of
each word as it appealed to him,or
would to any other Italian. The result
of this labor developed a manuscript by
which the tenor could quickly master
President Affirms
41 Draft Decisions
Decisions of the North Georgia Dis
trict Exemption Board in the foliow
ing, cases, which were appealed to the
President, have heen affirmed:
Charles O. Lambert, Atlanta, Di
vision No. 2; Lardo W. Westbrooks,
Banks County; Hardy Britton
Hughes, Bartow; William Allen Ho
gan, Racha @ Nix, William Forest
Simrson, Inman Smith, Thomas Pen
nington Thomas, Campbell; Arthur
A. Fowler, Cherokee; Harmon Har
vey Lawson, Clayton; J. L. Brantley,
Cobb; Hewlett Emmett Brown,
Coweta; Roy Mitchell, DeKalb;
Thurman Martin Morris, DeKalb;
Willlam Reaves, Early; Nathaniel
Glover, Fayette; Pence White,
Franklin; Moody Talmage Whitley,
Franklin; Robert Little Horton,
Greene; Frank Baskin Neal,, Greene;
Fred Iverson Neal, Greene; George
Silvey Partridge, Gwinnett ; Elmer B
Pearson, Gwinnett; Louy Summey
Pounds, Gwinnett; Fletcher Jackson
Grier, Hall: John Allen, Haralson;
Lowell S. Bradley, Haralson; Oram
Irvin, Harris; James S. Holbrook,
Hart: Melvin C. Elder, Jackson;
Eugene Nesbit Nicholson, Lumpkin;
Homer Lee Jackson Black, Madison,
Elmore Baughan, Meriwether; J. f
Caldwell, Meriwether; John Hemp
hill, Oglethorpe; Willlam Thomas
O’Kelly, Oglethorpe; Arthur Smith,
Paulding; Thad Stephens, Stephens;
Oscar Franklin Johnson, Walker;
Paul Cornelius Simonton, Walton.
DALTON, Nov. 28—For the first
time in nine years the Business Men's
Class of the First Methodist Sunday
school will not entertain at a banquet
in compliment to the class’ founder,
the Rev. R. A. Edmondson, of At
lanta. This decision was reached in
view of the food conservation work,
and the money customarily spent for
the banquet—approximately sloo—
— be given by the members of the
class to the Red Cross work. ,
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home. There W, G. Means, father of
the defendant, guestioned him about
what he had said of the tragedy.
Bingham said he had been at the
scene of the tragedy with Gaston and
Afton Means on the afternoon of
August 29, ostensibly for target prac
tice, :|lthou:;h(b(-fnre this time they
had done their shooting elsewhere.
On c¢ross-examination Captain
Bingham testified that he had been
on several excursions when Mrs. King
had used fircarms.
(ourt then adjourned until 2:20
o'clock. .
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It‘he English. A copy of it is reproduced
ere.
When the Metropolitan opened this
season Caruso, much to his regret,
found fireat difficulty in rendering the
national anthem with the fervor and en
thusiasm he desired because the words
were unfamiliar. After the perform
ance of ‘‘Aida,” which opened the sea
son's repertoire and at which “The Star
Spangled Banner” was sung after the
second act, the tenor commenced work
on the phonetic manuscript.
It can now be stated that his pro
nunciation isß superb. Speaking to a
visitor about bis method Caruso said:
“I am verv happy. I shall be able to
Gen. Rucker Is Here
From Wheeler Visit
General W. C. Rucker, assistant
surgeon general in the United States
Health Service, was a visitor at
Camp Gordon Wednesday, following
his inspection of Camp Wheeler at
Macon.
General Rucker Wednesday after
noon declined to make any comment
on health conditions at Camp Gordon,
saying this was a matter outside his
jurisdiction, and he had been to the
cantonment as a guest. Neither
would he discuss conditions at Camp
Wheeler, where deaths from pneumo
nia have been frequent recently.
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Auto Association to
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Have Dinner Dec. 11
Dec2mber 11 is the date set by the
Georgia State Automobile Association
for its ‘birthday dinner,” at which
the members will celebrate the first
anniversary of the organization of
the association.
Plans for the dinner were discussea
Tuesday at the semimonthly lunch
eon, when reports from the persons
who participated in the Aakland tour
from Pontiac, Mich., to Atlanta, and
those who made the inspection of
highways from Atlanta to Savannah,
Jacksonville, Thomasville and Colum
bus gave an account of their trips.
Dalton Red Cross
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Working for Sammies
DALTON, Nov. 28.—The Dalton
chapter of the Red Cross has sent an
other large box o fsurgical dressings
t 0 headquarters, the box éontaining
1,842 pieces. The chapter has decid
ed to devete the next few weeks ex
clusively to the making of supplies
which the division headqaurters has
called for, to be sent for immediate
use in France.
In addition to the vast amount of
work being done in the local work
rooms, the chapter is organizing aux
iliaries in the small towns of the
county, the latest having been or
ganized in Cohutta. ,
Paul Trout Named
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Chaplain at Gordon
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28—The ap
poinfimnm, and assignment of these
chaplains was announced today by the
War Department:
Paul M. Trout, Disciples of Christ,
Camp Gordor, Atlanta, Ga., and War
ren P. Grant, Baptist, Camp Jackson,
Columbia, S. C.
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Belgian Relief Head
.
Thanks President
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28.-—General
LeClerque, chief of the Belgian war
mission to the United States, thanked
President Wilson for the interest
shown by this country in the Belgian
situation and bid him farewell. Gen
eral LeClerque will leave this country
for Belgium soon.
give a splendid touch to your Ameri
can anthem and it is a great honor to
me, and it was all so very easy. Now
that I have mastered the verse I am go
ing to read the wonderful story about
the man ~ho wrote those words."
Here Signor Caruso produced a small
book which narrated the story of Fran
cis Scott Key.
‘“The version I have written,” explain
ed Caruso, ‘is identically the way the
English words sound when an Italian
hears them sung. I have carried it all
over with me and when time allowed I
would glance at the words until I be
came perfect.”
Northwest's Coal
Priority Is Revoked
WASHINGTON. Nov. 28.-—Priority
order No. 1, issued August 20, for the
purpose of relieving a threatened fuel
famine in the Northwest, was re
voked this afternoon by Priority
Commisgsioner Lovett,
The order gave priority to bitumi
nous coal over a score of railroads
for transshipment over the lakes. It
was canceled at the request of Fuel
Administrator Garfield. The order
has accomplished its purpose, and
there is no._danger of a coal famnie
in the Northwest, Judge Lovett said.
The revocation of the order is ef
fective at midnight November 30, ex
cept as it affects coal already en
route, loaded for shipment or ready
for loading.
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Cold Comfort for Atlantans in
Prognostications of Profes
sor Snider, of Griffin. x
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Here we are again; nearly a montn
ahead of time, with iron-clad predic
tions of a white Christmas by our
own pet weather prophet, Professor
A. L. Snider, of Griffin, Georgia.
Says Professor Snider, in part:
“Special to The Georgian.
“Cheer up-—the worst is yet to ar
rive. Be of good heart—the coal bins
are empty and a sweeping cold wave
and a snowstorm are on the way.
Never say die—the snowstorm will
get here first, and it will be so awful
you will sigh for the cold wave.,”
This is, indeed, encouraging. True
the snowstorm ig not scheduled to
reach thls hapless and coalless town
until Christmas KEve, so there is yet
time to split up the Morris chalr and
the mision table drawers that stic K,
anyhow. :
But trouble ig impending plenteous
ly. Listen:
“December will be cold, wet and
stormy,” says the prognosticator. “It
will be known as the sharp-shooter
morith for the cold waves, which will
be sharp and piercing. The coming
winter will be the coldest we have
had in many years. It will be a stun
ner—a corker--a hummer.”
The professor adds that if you want
the full details of the impending ca
lamity you can acquire the same at
the reasonable price of a dime (no
war tax) gent to him at Griflin for his
celebrated “Alamanac and Collection
of Poetic Gems and Thoughts.””
The gartis prediction concludes:
“This should make the weather bu
reau sit up and take notice. 1 want
to show them that I am around here,
and down here, and I don’t belleve
anybody will drive me in.”
Fitzgerald Fanci
FITZGERALD, Nov. 28.—The Fitz
gerald and Ocilla Poultry Association
is arranging to hold a poultry show in
this city for three days in December.
The fanciers here have carried off a
number of prizes in the sh ws at the
various fairs this fall and are now
planning for annual poultry shows in
their home town. Red Jones, a breed
er of Barred Rocks, will exhibit hid
‘birds this season in the National
‘Poultry Show at Chicago.
Holiday Thursday
For City Employees
City Hall will be closed and desert
ed Thursdav, following the Thanks
giving proclamation by Mayor Can
dler, All city employees, of every de
partment, whose duties can be sus
pended for the day wtihout causing
serious consequences or the liability
thereof, will take a holiday.
John R. Dortch Is
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- Mayor of Lavonia
LAVONIA, GA., Nov. 27.—1 n the
municipal election here today John
R. Dortch defeated R. C. Davis by
32 majority for Mayor. Dortch re
ceived 99 and Davis received 67 votes,
For Councilman T. C. Pulliam, J.
T. Beasley, Roush Barton and W. S.
Macomson were elected without op
position, all of them being Council
men for 1917. J, W. Maullln was re
elected clerk.
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Officials of the Y. M. C. A. employ~
ment bureau for the boys’ war fund
were enthusiastic Wednesday over the
progress belng made in this great
campaign to ald the Y. M. C. A. work
in the battle zones, as the results of
reports received Tuesday at the first
meeting of the executive committee
of the bureau.
The object and work of the bu
reau is being called especially to the
attention of the local merchants, man
ufacturers and other business people,
who may be able to give these vol
unteer boy workers a chance to earn
the $lO they have pledged to contrib
ute to the Y. M. C. A. war fund. It
was announced that all who desire to
get in touch with these boys can do
50 by telephoning to W. D. Sandford
At the ¥, M C. A, lvy 881,
The registration of these volunteer
workers has now passed the 800 mark,
it was announced. The %ovs have
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through the holidays. They all have
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to the ¥, M, C. A. Tind by April 1
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Drown at Baltimore
(By International News Service.)
BALTIMORE, Nov. 28.—Overturn-
Ing of a gasoline launch early today
threw fifteen members of the crew of
a Dutch vessel into the harbor, six
of them drowning. The others were
rescued by the tugboat Uncle Sam.
The men were returning to their
ship from shore. The bodies of the
drowned men were recovered and
taken to the city morgue.
One report says the launch sprang
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to wallow in the waves, and while at
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Chicago in Gloom
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CHICAGO. Nov. 28.—Chicago fell
its way about its business today in &
darkness scarcely less dense than thag
of midnight. ¢
Lights were necessary in all offices,
factories and homes, steam and elecs
tric trains crept along their routed
ways and vehicular traffic made its
way with difficulty through the
murky gloom that enshrouded the
city.
A blanket of low-banging clouds,
reinforced by a shroud of smoke so
thick that the sun’s rays could not
even dent it, was the explanation of
the phenomenon given by the weather
forecaster., Only a brisk wind that
would drive off the clouds would dis
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